http://www.mediafire.com/?l6cucxeda45bwpn
Name: Wake Up Naota
Anime: FLCL
Song: Wake Up by The Arcade Fire
Format: MP4
I thought the song perfectly described Naota's behavior of wanting to be older and throwing away painful things. His relationship with Haruka and Mamimi being a complex and filled with both pain and comfort at the same time. The fade out transitions were more of a experiment...I thought it ended up being pretty cool and didn't hinder the video, IMO.
How is it so far? If I continue on as is...is it worth watching? In the end, it's for myself, but I do love fresh perspectives. Even Arcade Fire itself was a band I normally wouldn't listen to and ended up looking into it do to other people mentioning other of their songs.
I want to follow the lyrics but not to the letter. The flow is most important to me and lyrics just happen to closely describe Naota. For big upswings in the music, I want to toss in a little bit of action to capture that mood shift. Also showing Naota's evolution into being independent and out of his brother's shadow while also shifting his emotions from Mamimi to Haruka.
Ambitious project seeing as the song is decently long. Thus thus far already had me sinking in over 8 hours. (Damn frame-by-frame fade-ins take a bit to make look right)

